How to add text to QuickTime movies

I remember doing this years ago. We needed to sync up some video in Macromedia's Director app to some little jumping frogs or something. So we had to manually type in all these time codes and brief descriptions of the action, which would then appear in our QT movies. It was painful, tedious, and generally unpleasant, but it got the job done. There are a lot of things you can actually do with text in QuickTime. Besides being an easy cheesy way to do a teleprompter (yes, I know it isn't a proper one, so no flames from the broadcasting students out there, ok?), you can create subtitles, or add chapters. The text track in a movie is searchable as well, which is a plus if you're creating training videos. You can even format your text!

Apple has moved their text tutorial out of the ghetto where it resided years ago, and on to some fancy new digs (complete with graphics). For those of you who need to do this in Classic get a life, there's QTTT a freeware text tool... Really, if you're looking for a reason to pay out $30 for QT Pro, you should have a look at the tutorials section for QuickTime and see if any of those features would help you out. QT is a surprisingly handy tool to have around...
 
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